Sean Gilbertson wrote:
Well, doesn't it tell you whether the socket is broken/closed? If you
can send successfully, doesn't it mean that the connection is still
valid?
Sean
On Jan 21, 2008 12:34 PM, Yann Leboulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Yann Leboulanger wrote:
Is it a good idea for a client to xmpp-ping server every X seconds to
test if it's still available, in order to detect server shutdown,
connection cut ... ?
Not really. It's pretty verbose. We generally prefer to send whitespace
over the TCP connection. We usually call that "whitespace ping".
Peter
That won't inform us if connection is brocken or server is down as those
whitespace ping don't receive a pong ...
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Yann
I'm not expert in low level sockets, but I don't think so. The timeout
can be very long.
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Yann
